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Alexander Scott LANG (1860 - 1932)

wine merchant - electoral rolls

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
	Alexander Scott LANG (1860 - 1932)	Matthew LANG (1830 - 1893)	Matthew LANG
			Margaret LOU(N)DON (1806 - )
		Jane Jean (Jessie) SCOTT (1835 - 1907)	Alexander SCOTT (1781 - 1847)	Unknown SCOTT
			Margaret CATHCART (1801 - 1884)	Robert CATHCART
				Jane MCQUAKER

b. 1860 at Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

d. 1932 at Sandringham, Victoria, Australia aged 72

Near Relatives of Alexander Scott LANG (1860 - 1932)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	Matthew LANG
Grandmother	Margaret LOU(N)DON	1806	Airdrie, Lanark, Scotland
Grandfather	Alexander SCOTT	abt 1781	Ayrshire, Scotland	1847		66
Grandmother	Margaret CATHCART	1801	Girvan, Ayr, Scotland	1884	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	83
Father	Matthew LANG	1830	Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland	1893	Moorabin, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	63
Mother	Jane Jean (Jessie) SCOTT	abt 1835	Girvan, Ayr, Scotland	1907	Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia	72
Self	Alexander Scott LANG	1860	Collingwood, Victoria, Australia	1932	Sandringham, Victoria, Australia	72
Brother	Matthew LANG	1859	Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia	1886	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	27
Brother	William Henry LANG	1859		1860	Prahan, Victoria, Australia	1
Sister	Margaret Cathcart LANG	1862	Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia	1874	Victoria, Australia	12
Sister	Jane (Jeannie) Cathcart LANG	1864	Kew, Victoria, Australia	1930	Victoria, Australia	66
Sister	Anne Hason (Mason)LANG	1866	Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1909	Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia	43
Sister	Roberta (Bertha) LANG	abt 1867	Victoria, Australia	1939	Victoria, Australia	72
Brother	John LANG	1870	Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1877	Victoria, Australia	7
Sister	Jessie LANG	1875	East Melbourne, Vic, Australia	1894	Sandringham, Victoria, Australia	19
Brother	Stanley LANG	aft 1876
Uncle	Robert LANG	1833	Airdrie, Lanark, Scotland
Uncle	John LANG	1835
Uncle	James LANG	1838		1875	Victoria, Australia	37
Uncle	William LANG	1841	Airdrie, Lanark, Scotland
Uncle	John SCOTT	1823	Girvan, Ayr, Scotland	1899	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland	76
Aunt	Jessie HANNAH	1825	Girvan, Ayr, Scotland	1899	Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland	74
Uncle	Robert SCOTT	abt 1827	Girvan, Ayr, Scotland	1892	S. S. Victoria - P & O line	65
Aunt	Harriett FRANKLIN	1838	Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England	1920	Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia	82
Uncle	James SCOTT	1831	Girvan, Ayr, Scotland	1905	Perth, WA, Australia	74
Aunt	Jessie Cummings LAMBIE	1844	Southend, Argyle, Scotland	1886	Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia	42
Uncle	Alexander SCOTT	1843	Girvan, Ayr, Scotland	1909	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	66
Cousin	Margaret SCOTT	1853	Ayrshire, Scotland	1918	Christchurch, New Zealand	65
Cousin	Alexander SCOTT	abt 1855	Colmonell, Ayreshire, Scotland	1890	Milparinka, New South Wales, Australia	35
Cousin	David SCOTT	1856	Scotland	1930	Calgary, Alberta, Canada	74
Cousin	Jessie SCOTT	1858	Colmonell, Ayreshire, Scotland
Cousin	James SCOTT	1860	Colmonell, Ayreshire, Scotland
Cousin	Robina SCOTT	1861	Colmonell, Ayreshire, Scotland	1905	Combe Fields Farm, Binley, England	44
Cousin	Jane (Jeanie) SCOTT	1864	Colmonell, Ayreshire, Scotland
Cousin	Mary SCOTT	1867	Withorn, Wigton, Scotland
Cousin	Cathcart SCOTT	1879	Victoria, Australia	1944	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia	65
Cousin	Alexandra SCOTT	1880	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1933	Camberwell, Victoria, Australia	53
Cousin	Elizabeth Buchanan SCOTT	1870	Collingwood, Victoria, Australia	1941	Perth, WA, Australia	71
Cousin	Mathew Lang SCOTT	1873	South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	1876	Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia	3
Cousin	Alexandrina Margaret Cathcart SCOTT	1875	Echuca, Victoria, Australia	1950	Tunbridge Wells, England	75
Cousin	James Lambie SCOTT	1877	Echuca, Victoria, Australia	1879	Echuca, Victoria, Australia	2
Cousin	Robert Johnstone SCOTT	1879	Echuca, Victoria, Australia	1885	Ivanhoe Lodge, Ivanhoe, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia	6
Cousin	Walter Buchanan SCOTT	1881	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia	1916	Villers Bretonneux, France	35
Cousin	Alexander Paterson SCOTT	1884	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia	1918	Villers Bretonneux, France	34
Brother in Law	Allan Ronald MCLACHLAN	1863	Victoria, Australia	1942	Eltham, Victoria, Australia	79

Events in Alexander Scott LANG (1860 - 1932)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1860		Alexander Scott LANG was born	Collingwood, Victoria, Australia	Note 1	52
1893	33	Death of father Matthew LANG (aged 63)	Moorabin, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	Note 2	52
1895	35	Other Event	Rickards Point, Sandringham, Melbourne	Note 3
1907	47	Death of mother Jane Jean (Jessie) SCOTT (aged 72)	Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia	Note 4	52, 60
1932	72	Alexander Scott LANG died	Sandringham, Victoria, Australia	Note 5	60
1932	72	Burial	Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew, Victoria	Note 6	90

Note 1: Alexander Scott Lang in the Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name: Alexander Scott Lang Birth Date: Abt 1860 Birth Place: Collingwood, Victoria Registration Year: 1860 Registration Place: Victoria, Australia Father: Matthew Lang Mother: Jane Scott

Note 2: Mat Lang in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 Name: Mat Lang [Matthew Lang] Birth Year: abt 1830 Age: 63 Death Place: Sandringham, Victoria Father's Name: Mat Mother's Name: Margt Loudon Registration Year: 1893 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 3700 Mount Alexander Mail (Victoria) 4 March 1893 MR MATTHEW LANG. The announcement of the death of Mr Mat thew Lang, M.L.O., who recently filled the mayoral chair of Melbourne for three successive years, has caused a general feeling of sincere regret. Mr Lang was born at the little town of Aidrie, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in the year 1830; and next May would have been 63 years of age He received his schooling in the town of his birth, and at a comparatively early age he was sent to Liverpool, where he entered the em ploy of Mackie, Gladstone and Co., wine and spirits merchants. In 1853 he had so gained the confidence of his employers that he was sent to Melbourne to act as agent for the firm. He took premises on the spot now occupied by the Em pire buildings, Collins-street, and within two years of his arrival made arrangements by which he acquired the business for himself... He re mained in Collins-street until about six years ago, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Mr Alex. Scott, when he sold the premises to Mr C. H. James and removed to Market-street. At an early period in the history of the colony Mr Lang took a deep interest in commercial pur suits. Many years ago he joined the board of the National Mutual Life Association, and at the time of his death he was in addition a director of the Commercial Bank, the National Fire In surance Company, the Equity Trustees, Carlton Brewery Company and Gilllespie Bros., Limited. He also possessed an extensive station property at Mount Poole, In the north-west of New South Wales. It was at this place that Sturt, (the ex plorer, formed his historic , depot nearly half a century ago , when hemmed in by a terrible drought. It was only after long and persistant persuasion on the part of his friends that Mr Lang was induced to enter public life. Though warmhearted and generous, even lavish, in his hospitality, he had a singularly retiring disposi tion and held his worth in modest estimation. In 1876, however, he was induced to offer him self for a seat in the City Council, rendered vacant by the retirement of Cr Gatehouse, and in May of that year he was returned for Albert Ward. In 1878 he retired in order to visit Scot land. Eleven years later he re-entered the City Council, succeeding the late Mr John Wilks as representative of Lonsdale'Ward on 19th Feb ruary, 1889. In October of the same, year he was elected mayor of the city, and was re-elected to that position in the two succeeding years,: until last October of the same year he was elected mayor of the city, and was re-elected to that position in the two succeeding years, until last October, when he was succeeded by Cr Snowden, the present occupant of the position. Having once entered public life his services were much sought after, and honours in the shape of public trusts fell upon him fast. Three years ago he was elected by the merchants and traders of Mel-- bourne as one of their representatives on the Harbour Trust, and a year later the City Coun cil sent him as one of their commissioners on the. Metropolitan Board of Works. The crowning honour of his public career was attained a few months ago, when the electors of the South Yarra Province returned him unopposed to the Legislative Council to succeed the late Sir James MacBain. All these varied public positions were (says the ' Age ') filled with ability, and a scrupulous honesty of purpose. During his term as Mayor Mr Lang was called upon to exercise discretion and firmness in dealing with the troubles attending the great maritime strike, and he then showed that under a mild exterior he possessed a resolute will. It was in his pri vate life that he was seen at his best. His hos- pitality was unlimited, and the unobtrusive; charity that he dispensed is said by those best qualified to know to have been of the most

Note 3: Gave away sister Anne at her wedding

Note 4: Jane Lang in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 Name: Jane Lang Birth Year: abt 1834 Age: 73 Death Place: Cham, Victoria Father's Name: Scott Alexr Mother's Name: Margt Cathcart Registration Year: 1907 Registration Place: Victoria Registration Number: 11668 The Herald (Melbourne) 8 Oct 1907 DEATHS. LANG.— On the 8th Inst, at Rickett's Point Sandringhamn, Jane, widow of the late Matthew Lang.

Note 5: POSSIBLE Alexander Lang in the Australia and New Zealand, Find a Grave Index, 1800s-Current Name: Alexander Lang Birth Date: 1860 Death Date: 1 Mar 1932 Cemetery: Boroondara General Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Kew, Boroondara City, Victoria, Australia Has Bio?: N The Age (Melbourne) 1 March 1932 LANG.— On the 29th February, at South Yarra (suddenly)(785 Punt Road) & later at 31 Kensington Rd), Alexander Scott, son of the late Matthew and Jane Lang, Ricketts Point, Sandringham.

Note 6: Alexander Lang Birth 1860 Death 1 Mar 1932 (aged 71–72) Burial Boroondara General Cemetery Kew, Boroondara City, Victoria, Australia Plot PRES A 0240

Personal Notes:

1883 - Alexander Lang took over Mount Poole - son of Matthew Lang who died 1893 Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 14 March 1894 The following have been appointed as sheep directors for Milparinka: Alex. Lang, Mount Poole; Archie Lang, Mount Sturt: David Scott, Whittabrinnah. 1894 - Mount Poole station - licenced to receive scalps (dingo - 10 shillings) Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 28 April 1894 The following have been gazetted receivers of scalps under the Pastures and Stock Protection Act :- David Scott, Whittabrennah Archie Lang, Mount Sturt Alex. Lang, Mount Poole The following have been gazetted receivers of scalps under the Pastures and Stock Protection Act :- David Scott, Whittabrennah ; T. W. Robinson, Cobham Lake; W. H. Reid, Yancannia ; Archie Lang, Mount Sturt ; Alex. Lang, Mount Poole ; E P. Hammet, Fort Grey ; A. S.. Bartlett, Caryapundy ; J. C. Harrison, Mount Arrowsmith; W. O. Thomson, Mount Sturt. The rates fixed for dog scalp is 10s. Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 21 Aug 1894 In the Mount Brown District. Friday's Mount Brown paper has the following local items : Shearing will start at Mount Poole station to morrow (Saturday) on terms and conditions to be arranged between employer and employees at the time of the calling of the roll. Mr. Alex. Lang is too practical and business-like to play the game of "follow the leader" to any party or combina- tion to the detriment of his interest. A start will be made at Mount Sturt before the end of the month. Messrs.. A. and J. Lang always shear under a verbal arrangement, and so far have never had any trouble. Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) 10 March 1896 THE LAND BOARD The board sat again last night. .The application of Mount Poole lessees for a new appraisement was considered; Mr. A. J. Hall for applicants. Alex- ander Lang gave evidence. His chief complaint, apart from rabbits and droughts, was that the leasehold was traversed by five stock routes con- verging at Milparinka, and that the country was largely occupied by miners and prospectors. Fencing wire dis- appeared, tanks were damaged, and sheep driven away from water ; this greatly added to the cost of manage- ment, and reduced the carrying capa- city ; last year 14,000 sheep had to be removed. The case was unconcluded. 1896 The Age 11 March 1896 STURT'S DEPOT GLEN. BROKEN HILL, Tuesday. At the land court sitting yesterday, Alexander Lang, owner of Mount Pool Station, said he had been on the station for 13 years. Although several severe droughts had taken place, Captain Start's historic Depot Glen had never run dry. He believed, however, it had been dry once since Sturt used it as his depot. At present he estimated that the Glen was capable of providing water for stock on 32,000 acres. NSW GAzette 13 March 1896 (also 1895, 1894) Sheep Directors Archibald Lang Esq Mount Sturt - Milparinga Alex. Lang Esq - Mount Poole - Milparinga A. J. Coombe - Packsaddle - Milparinga W. O. Thompson Esq - Mount Sturt - Tibooburta David Scott Esq - Whittabrannah - Tibooburra ARCHIBALD LANG RETURNING OFFICER NSW GAzette 5 June 1894 Application for purchase of land - improvements in resued area of Mount Poole Matthew Lang and Alexander Scott - 40 acres - 51 pounds Eastern Districts Chronicle (York, W.A.) 5 Jan 1895 The rabbits are dying in thousands," writes the Start Recorder, " but millions are still left to do further damage, and complete the devastation of the entire district. Mr Alex. Lang, of Mount Poole, it trying the phosphorised pol lard in localities where the rodents have become domiciled and have burrows to escape from the heat, and where they cannot be fenced off from water. This phosphorised pollard is made'up into small pills and is greedily taken by the rabbits, who then resort to their burrows and die there, forcing their comrades out to sicken under the scorching heat or become victims to the poisoned pills." NSW GAzette 3 May 1898 Scalps certificate W. O. Thompson - Mount Stuart, Tibooburra Alex Lang - Mount Poole, Milparinga Jas. Lang - Mount Sturt, Milparinga Western Grazier (Wilcannia) 2 June 1900 & 1901 Certificates for scalps (dingoes) - Pasture and Stock Protection Alex Lang, Mt Poole, Milparinka Jas. Lang, Mt Sturt, Milparinka Frank Little, Whittabrannah, Tibooburra 26 Feb 1901 - Govt Gazette NSW - Diseases in sheep acts amendment Alexander Lang Esq, Mount Poole, Milparinka - one of the sheep directors for Milparinka area Western Grazier Wilcannia) 16 Oct 1901 Audit of the receipts & expenditure of the Pastures and Stock Protection at Milparinka - treasurer, Alex Lang Govt Gazette NSW 27 Nov 1903 PASTURES PROTECTION ACT, 1902. Notice or Appointment of Receivebs of Scalps. NOTICE is hereby given that the Pastures Protection Board for the District of Milpurinka has appointed the persona men tioned below to receive and grant certificates for scalps in conformity with the abovenamed Act, and they will be in attendance at the places mentioned for that purpose. (Signed) T. W. ROBINSON, Chairman Pastures Protection Board. Dated at Milparinka, this 14th day of November, 1913. T. W. Robinson, Cobham Lake. O. Shaw, Yancannia. P. J. McLean, Yantara. Alex. Lang, Mount Poole. Richard Dawes, Yandama. Jas. Lang, Mount Sturt. E. B. Davis, Olive Downs. F. Little, Mount Wood. F. H. Duffield, Mount Poole. The Argus (Melbourne) 24 Aug 1908. PARTICULARS OF PROPOSED NEW COMPANY INTENDING TO AQUIRE OR OBTAIN THE TRANSFER OF THE BUSINESS AND ASSETS. Name Showing Whether or not Already Regis- tered - "The Mount Wood Pastoral Company Limited," not already registered. To include Mount Wood, Whittabranah and Torrens Creek stations big drought of 18The Argus (Melbourne) 4 Nov 1909 PUBLICANS' LICENSES. APPLICATION for TRANSFER of LICENSE FROM ONE PERSON TO ANOTHER. To the licensing Court for the Licensing District of Lon sdale. -I Alexander Lang the executor of the will of Alexander Scott deceased the holder of a grocers license for the premises known as 437 Collins street, situate at Melbourne, do hereby give notice that it is my intention to APPLY to the lisencing magistrates holding the licensing meet ing at Melbourne on Tuesday the sixteenth day of November 1909 to TRANSFER the said LICENSE- to Alexander Lang of 5 Market street Melbourne, wine and spirit merchant Given under my hand this 25th day of October AD 1909 ALEX LANG Executor of the Will of Alexander Scott deceased And I the said Alexander Lang do hereby apply for the said transfer Given under my hand this 25th day of October AD 1909 ALEX LANG Williams and Matthews, solicitors 89 Queen Street Melbourne. APPLICATION for REMOVAL of GROCER'S LICENSE- -To the licensing Court for the licensing District of Lonsdale -I, Alexander Lang the executor of the will of Alexander Scott deceased, the holder of a grocer s license for the house and premises situate at 437 Collins Street Melbourne do hereby give notice that 1 desire to obtain and will at the sitting of the Licensing Court for the said licensing district to be holden at Melbourne on Tuesday the16th day of Novem ber 1909, APPLY for aCERTIFICATE authorising the REMOVAL of the said Grocer s LICENSE from the premises situate at 437 Colllns Street Melbourne to other premises situate at 57 Market Street Melbourne in the said licensing district. Dated the twenty fifth day of October 1909 ALEX LANG Executor of the Will of Alexander Scott, deceased The Argus (Melbourne) 24 Aug 1908. PARTICULARS OF PROPOSED NEW COMPANY INTENDING TO AQUIRE OR OBTAIN THE TRANSFER OF THE BUSINESS AND ASSETS. Name Showing Whether or not Already Regis- tered - "The Mount Wood Pastoral Company Limited," not already registered. To include Mount Wood, Whittabranah and Torrens Creek stations The family name of Moore features prominantly. The Moore family owned a large house at Echuca by the name “Whittabranah”. It was built by the firm of W.W. Moore and sons for Walter Moore’s own use Walter Moore moved to Deniliquin. The property was up for sale in Riverine Herald (Echuca) 20 June 1908.

Source References:

52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record

- Reference = (Birth)

- Notes: Alexander Scott Lang in the Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 Name: Alexander Scott Lang Birth Date: Abt 1860 Birth Place: Collingwood, Victoria Registration Year: 1860 Registration Place: Victoria, Australia Father: Matthew Lang Mother: Jane Scott

60. Type: Newspaper, Title: Trove, http://trove.nla.gov.au

- Reference = (Death)

- Notes: The Age (Melbourne) 1 March 1932 LANG.— On the 29th February, at South Yarra (suddenly), Alexander Scott, son of the late Matthew and Jane Lang, Ricketts Point, Sandringham.

90. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Find A Grave, Title: Findagrave.com

- Reference = (Burial)

- Notes: Alexander Lang Birth 1860 Death 1 Mar 1932 (aged 71–72) Burial Boroondara General Cemetery Kew, Boroondara City, Victoria, Australia Plot PRES A 0240

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